elucido writes: BillPayForCoins allows people to completely break free from fiat currencies and pay their bills . TravelforBitcoins allows you to travel via Bitcoins. Will these sites really make a difference to the market cap?

elucido writes: According to CNN iReport Zimbabwe and possibly other nations will be forming a Union to adopt Bitcoin as the national currency. What could this mean for Bitcoin and/or developing nations?

elucido writes: This new technology offers cheap and easy to mass produce graphene supercapaitors which can charge a laptop in seconds rather than minutes and a car in minutes rather than hours. No more batteries!

elucido writes: According to Rawstory: "A growing number of law enforcement agencies, in the US and elsewhere, have been adopting software tools with predictive analytics, based on algorithms that aim to predict crimes before they happen."

elucido writes: This is an investigation as to whether or not it is possible for a Satellite to read our thoughts. If it is possible when are we going to update our thoroughly antiquated laws to reflect this?

elucido writes: "3. (S) The Baku businessman is a UK-educated engineer from aprominent Pre-Revolution Isfahan family, and formerly owned alarge factory in Iran. He is a former national fencingchampion of Iran. former President of the Iran FencingAssociation, and Vice-President of an Azerbaijan sportsassociation. He has been based in Baku for more than tenyears, working primarily as a sub-contractor to BP and theCape Industrial Services company. While his oil servicescompany includes an insulation division that may be incompetition with INSULTEC, source has provided "inside"information on many other Iranian issues (includingcomprehensive data on the status of new Iranian oil refineryconstruction) that does not relate to his private interestsin any way.

4. (S) Note: A quick google check revealed several companieswith the name INSULTEC in the title — these may or not beaffiliated. Based on the information provided by source(currently in Iran, where he frequently travels), onepossible candidate could be "INSULTEC Chitral Ltd." EndNote.http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable...09BAKU179.html

elucido writes: An editorial titled "EDITORIALA Bruise on the First Amendment" discusses the supreme court decision which says it is illegal to give advice or assistance. Quote:"The case arose after an American human rights group, the Humanitarian Law Project, challenged the law prohibiting “material support” to terror groups, which was defined in the 2001 Patriot Act to include “expert advice or assistance.” The law project wanted to provide advice to two terrorist groups on how to peacefully resolve their disputes and work with the United Nations. " The Supreme Court voted to uphold the ban on providing advice or assistance to designated terrorist groups. This means it may be a crime to communicate at all with any known terrorist group as any communication can be interpreted as advice or may be interpreted as assistance.

I interpret the Supreme Court ruling 6-3 in favor of upholding the advice and assistance (material support) section of the Patriot Act as evidence that we do not have "free speech." What we can say is governed by law.